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This crossed the Major's mind and drove away his cheerful whistling; and he was deeply thinking when someone riding in haste reined in a horse abreast of him. Looking up he recognized the priest. "Why, good morning, Mr. Brennon; how are you?" "Well, I thank you. How far do you go?" "To Brantly." "That's fortunate," said the priest, "for I am selfish enough to let you shorten the journey for me."
"I kept myself up," said the giant; and then he added: "I wanted to see you this morning, not very bad, but just to ask you to get me a box of forty-fours when you go to Brantly to-day." "I'm glad to find you so thoughtful," said the Major. "And I want to tell you right now that you've got to look out for yourself. But staying up all night is no way to begin. Go on into Tom's room and take a nap."
Whenever a young man left Brantly it was predicted that he would come to no good, and always there came a report that he was gambling, or drinking himself to death. The mere fact that he desired to leave the old town was fit proof of his general unworthiness to succeed in life.
Sandford to use as her judgment might dictate, saying that she would call and see her again in a few days. The Rev. Mr. Brantly Elliott was sitting in his pleasant study, engaged in writing, when a servant opened the door and said: "A gentleman wishes to see you, sir." "What name?" asked the clergyman. "He did not give me his name. I asked him, but he said it wasn't any matter.
Don't think, from my telling you this, that I am in the least doubt as to the desirability of your company on the road to Brantly. Been some time since I've seen you, Mr. Brennon." "Yes; I have been very busy." "And successfully so, I suppose." "I am not in a position to complain," said the priest. "By the way, will you answer a few questions?" "Gladly, if they're answerable." "I think they are.
Jest go on and take your time like we want here waitin' for you." While the Major was in the dining-room, Gid came out and told him that the priest had said to him and to others that it might be well to call at the Major's house immediately upon his return from Brantly. "He's all right," said the Major, getting up and taking the lead toward the library.
A railway had skipped Brantly by ten long and sandy miles, and a new town springing up about a station on the line an up-start of yesterday, four-fifths of it being a mere paper town, and the other fifth consisting of cheap and hastily built stores, saloons, boarding houses, a livery stable, a blacksmith shop, and a few roughly constructed dwellings clamored for the county seat; and until this question was finally settled old Brantly could not look with confidence toward any improvement.
Let's see what old Billy has to say." And now having put on his spectacles, he read aloud the following: "Marcus T. Berry, sheriff of this the county of Cranceford, in the State of Arkansas, did on this day seek to break up a den of negro gamblers at Sassafras, in the before mentioned county of Cranceford, and State as above set forth, and while in the discharge of his duty, was then and there fired upon and so desperately wounded that in his home in the town of Brantly, seat of the said county of Cranceford, State as before mentioned, he now lies at the point of death.
Brennon," the Major replied, "between you and me the question of creed should not arise. You are a white man and a gentleman. My hand, sir." Brantly long ago was a completed town. For the most part it was built of wood, and its appearance of decay was so general and so even as to invite the suspicion that nearly all its building had been erected on the same day.
"Well, then, sir," cried the Major, standing in his stirrups, "I will not say never; I will fix a time, and it shall be when the pyramids, moldered to dust, are blown up and down the valley of the Nile." He let himself down with a jolt, and onward in silence they rode. And now from a rise of ground the village of Brantly was in sight. The priest halted. "I turn back here," he said. "Mr.
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